Earthquake jolts southern Japan

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 hit southern Japan late on Wednesday, said the Japan Meteorological Agency, without issuing a tsunami warning. The epicenter was the Bungo Channel, a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and ... ( read original story ...)

Magnitude 6.6 quake strikes off Shikoku

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake, measuring a weak 6 on Japan's seismic intensity scale, struck off the west coast of Japan's Shikoku island on Wednesday night. There was no threat of a tsunami, and it was not immediately clear if the quake had caused injuries or damage. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s foreign trade surplus at $2.4B

Japan's foreign trade surplus was 366.5 billion yen ($2.37 billion) in March, versus minus 750.8 billion yen, official figures from the Finance Ministry on Wednesday showed. The country's exports totaled 9.47 trillion yen ($61.3 billion), increasing by 7.3% year-on-year in March.

Yokohama breaks ground on Mexico tire plant

Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (YRC) officially broke ground on a passenger and light truck tire plant in Mexico that will be rated at an annual capacity of 5 million tires a year. ( read original story ...)